RELATED: Where is Santa Claus right now? NORAD tracks Santa for 69th year The treat came over from Germany and was mostly just a candy stick at first, but people wanted to use them as tree ...

It's pulled, twisted, bent . . . and sweet! Nothing says Christmas like a fresh crop of candy canes. So how did a peppermint stick with a hook come to be a symbol of the season? The tale ...

What we do have are a lot of guesses, gossip, and rumors. The earliest proto-candy-cane was most likely a plain white sugar stick of the sort used by frazzled parents of the 1600s as pacifiers for ...